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As Cancer Research UK launches a campaign to raise awareness over the rising number of people getting cancer, we talk to former semi-professional footballer Lee Willcox from Ipswich about his battle with testicular cancer.

Women's lifetime cancer risk is also increasing and is predicted to rise from 40 to 44 out of every 100 women by 2027.**

The projected increase is largely due to the fact that people are living longer and cancer is predominantly a disease of old age. But thanks to research, survival rates have doubled in the past 40 years and more people in East Anglia are now beating the disease than ever before. **